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Wild Horse Nine Isn’t About the Rabbits It’s About All the Bodies

Taylor Holmes — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 22:18:31 +0000

I just watched Wild Horse Nine and I loved it, and I also think the internet is having almost exactly the wrong conversation about it. Everybody wants to talk about the Of Mice and Men thing. Two guys, one of them slowly unraveling, wild horses running loose across this beautiful island instead of Lenny’s dream of tending rabbits on a little farm. Cute parallel. Easy to spot. Completely beside the point. This is a Martin McDonagh movie, so you already […]

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The Mosquito Bowl Is Basically a War Propaganda Polemic

Taylor Holmes — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 08:53:49 +0000

I need to set some ground rules before I even get into this one, because I don’t normally do this. I don’t write reviews for movies I disdain. If I don’t like something, I usually just quietly move on and spend my energy on a film worth recommending instead. But I walked out of The Mosquito Bowl, and though I wouldn’t say I exactly had high hopes… but I was cautiously optimistic none the less. So I want to talk […]

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It’s a Wonderful Night of the Living Dead Is the Most Delightfully Unhinged Mashup I’ve Seen in Years

Taylor Holmes — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:09:19 +0000

Too few people know about this amazing short film… and this short film makes me extraordinarily happy that it exists. And you need to be happy that it exists as well. So yeah, there is an eight minute magical short film called It’s a Wonderful Night of the Living Dead, and it does exactly what the title promises. George Bailey is standing on that bridge in Bedford Falls, the whole town is decked out for Christmas Eve, and then the […]

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The Entirety of the Movie You Can See Everything Explained

Taylor Holmes — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:40:26 +0000

I believe that You Can See Everything deserves the Best Picture win this year. And yes, I know this is a year that included Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and will also include Dune 3. Doesn’t matter – You Can See Everything is the deserving winner. But in order to make heads or tails out of this movie you need to know a lot to make it make sense. So that is what this primer is going to do, if you are […]

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Widow’s Bay Show Ending Explained In Detail

Taylor Holmes — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:34:43 +0000

I’m going to say this up front because I don’t say it often. Widow’s Bay was fun, it was genuinely funny, and it was thrilling in a way that snuck up on me, because I went in expecting a straightforward thriller of a TV show and instead, I got something a lot weirder and a lot more alive than that. I can completely see why this thing is getting as hyped as it is. Widow’s Bay doesn’t look or feel […]

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The Beast Is a COD Mission With Samuel Jackson Welded Into It

Taylor Holmes — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:09:59 +0000

This was our Guy Movie Night pick for October, and I want to be upfront that it was picked in a month that also had Digger and The Social Reckoning on the table. One of those is a genuinely ambitious, extraordinarily overstuffed meditation on catharsis and climate guilt that happened to flop spectacularly at the box office. The other is a gorgeously written, five years too late lecture about an algorithm we already understood. And then there’s The Beast, which […]

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The Social Reckoning Is Perfectly Written and Perfectly Late

Taylor Holmes — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:14:14 +0000

I need to tell you up front that I am an enormous, unapologetic Aaron Sorkin fan. I’ve watched West Wing beginning to end three or four times. Moneyball is magic. Molly’s Game is criminally underrated. Chicago 7 is just brilliantly written, start to finish. And The Social Network, the first one, is about as close to a perfect movie as exists. Screenplay, acting, score, all of it. So when I tell you that The Social Reckoning did not work for […]

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The Tom Cruise Movie Digger Unpacked Dissected and Explained

Taylor Holmes — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:52:06 +0000

I need to be honest about where I started with this one. I generally despise Tom Cruise movies. Not just find them forgettable, actually despise them. Vapid, shallow, action for the sake of action, built entirely around the one trick of watching a guy run very fast and very seriously. And that’s before you even get into the fact that I think he’s a genuinely horrible human being. Under normal circumstances I would not have gone anywhere near a movie […]

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Was The Movie The Weight Historically Accurate

Taylor Holmes — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:33:11 +0000

Was The Movie The Weight Historically Accurate. Okay so I need to talk about The Weight because I went into it wanting a historical action movie in the vein of Lawless or The Untouchables and came out having gotten exactly that, just filtered through a completely different lense. BUT WAS IT ACCURATE? There were so many important historical details that needed to come together in order to make this plot even necessary!! But, were they on point? Secondly, was the […]

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